Isabelle Choko (née Izabela Sztrauch Galewska, 18 September 1928 – 21 July 2023) was a Polish-French Holocaust survivor and chess player who won the 1956 French Women's Chess Championship.
During the summer of 1944, the ghetto was liquidated and Isabelle Choko and her mother were sent to Auschwitz concentration camp where she was selected in a working kommando.
In February 1945, during the evacuation of Auschwitz, she was sent to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp where her mother died.
Weakened by typhus, she was saved by an American army doctor when the camp was liberated.
[7] At the beginning of the 2000s, she decided to testify about the deportation by publishing her autobiography Mes deux vies with the editions Caractères.